garcher{at}wdn.com wrote:
> Addressed to: os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com
>               scoug-help{at}scoug.com
>               os2-linux{at}yahoogroups.com
> 
> After Parallel (www.paallels.com/en/products/workstation/) took over the
> development of a VM from Serenity and now sells it for Win and Linux
> hosting other OS' including eCS (Parallel relegates eCS to the status of
> "legacy OS" along with DOS and OS/2 (!) ), is anyone running
eCS as host or
> guest in a virtual machine (VM) and could share their experiences on
> performance and compatibility issues with emphasis on eCS in either
> capacity.  What i need to know is:
> 
> Can I install a VM with Linux or eCS as host on a stand alone
> (non-networked) box that may eventually have broadband access to Internet?
> 
> Given the demise of Svista, I seem to have no other options but run eCS as
> a guest under another OS (unless I use the VM bundled with eCS:
> 
> Which of the other OS' VM options is best:
> 
> 1. eCS 1.2 (Svista beta?) - I have a registered copy of eCS 1.2 but have
>    not intalled it yet, hence my interest in the VM software issue
> 2. Parallels (Linux/eCS - host/guest) (www.parallels.com)
> 3. Xen (in one of the various Linux distros and hope that it can run eCS as
>    guest). I've never seen comments by a Linux user running Xen with eCS as
>    guest.
> 4. Other: ? (I do NOT want to run eCS as guest under any version of Windows
>    being host, even though I have Win2K Pro on a laptop. I'm out of HD
>    space and don't want to re-install on another machine even with a Win2K
>    Pro update CD using a registered copy of Win95 to get the update
>    installed. The Fujitsu laptop version of Win2K I have is too
>    hardware-proprietary to run on any other hardware.)
> 
> TIA,
> 
> George Archer
> Reston, VA, USA

There is a new OS/2 VM option, not yet publicly available but just 
announced by Innotek.  It was announced on the VOICE News mailing list a 
few days ago.  Until that becomes available I am using the VirtualPC for 
OS/2 that Innotek ported for Connectix.  Unfortunately micro$oft bought the 
companies products and killed the OS/2 version so it is no longer available 
for purchase.



++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service   http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel 

http://www.virtualbox.org/

"InnoTek today has released its leading virtualization product as open 
source and launched virtualbox.org as the online community to further 
develop the product."

"InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for 
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature 
rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the 
only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software 
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL)."

Though no mention of OS/2 as anything other then a guest, on the list of 
screenshots: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots there is 
an image of XP running under OS/2:

http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/vbox_os2_alpha.png

Currently only windows and Linux versions are shown on the download page: 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Under the guest status page: 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Status%3A%20Guest%20OSes

For OS/2 Warp, it states that it works, stability is "good", and 
performance is "very good".     It also states "Requires
VT-x hardware 
virtualization support. No Guest Additions available yet."

They are looking for help with coding, documentation and design. 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor%20information

You can subscribe to an announcement, User and Developers mailing lists at 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community


-- 

  From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel

  Warpstock 2007 - Where?, http://www.warpstock.org
  Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net


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